well work is pleasant today. Global Microsoft issues, feels like everything is on 1980's acoustic coupled dial-up. "We're working on finding a solution, in the mean time please just keep working as usual" ... sure, the 9.3gb data set I'm downloading at 0.8kb/s that I need to start my days work is only 2% downloaded :|

.c 9300000000/800

isn't it fixed yet, pauliouk ?

xkcd.com/303 it's downlading :P

Seriously had management, many eons ago, complain that "In my day" they didn't need faster computers to be running the code all the time, spending more time to get it right without needing to debug

Show me right now, o master.

indeed. This was on the background of requests for better developer machines. Of course.

I heard Azure was toast, globally

frankly, always happy to see M$ fail

They set the wrong target to "extinguish" ?

lol

mebbe a laid off engineer left a gift

Developers, developers, developers...

in fairness sech1 I definitely used that excuse a lot today :P

"back in my day, we coded directly into assembly and made sure we got it right before building... none of this fancy GUI IDE and Google/Stackoverflow copy and paste bullshit"

in fairness, I don't think I've learned to code in any language at all... but damn can I google like a beast

yeah I learned 6502 machine language directly. No fancy-shmancy assembler, just poking numeric bytes straight into memory and jumping into it

my first exposure to a macro assembler, 6 years later, was a marvel